Second Mona Lisa authenticated after 35 years?

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Would you like to see the Mona Lisa at least 10 years younger?  That’s exactly what the Mona Lisa foundation says you can do when you look at  the “Isleworth Mona Lisa.”  After 35 years of research, the foundation claims it has definitive proof its painting of a woman with a coy smile is an earlier painting of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and predates the masterpiece by at least a decade based on regression tests, mathematical comparisons and historical and archival records.  Experts who have studied the paintings say the woman in the Isleworth painting is in her 20’s.  The famous Mona Lisa is in her 30’s.  Other experts though have questioned the Isleworth painting’s authenticity.  The foundation says it will publish a book with its new evidence.

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